Few moments cry out for the use of vacation time more than warm and sunny days in September and October in Oregon’s Cascade Mountain wilderness areas. The trails, lakes and peaks of Oregon’s most ...

Pat Marcuson rounded out his legendary Montana backcountry fisheries career by working with salmon in Alaska and then with Idaho Fish and Game on Kootenay River white sturgeon and in central Idaho ...

Six years ago, I had newly discovered the tenkara approach to fly-fishing, and I was eager to get into more wilderness areas to try it out. I had been in and around wilderness most of my life, but I ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It was the end of a long, hot day of backpacking. My hiking companions Erik Petersen and Parker ...

It can be a day-hike or adventure — an easy backpacking trip with kids or bushwhack to one of Oregon’s most impressive waterfalls. You can go fishing, or swimming, or exploring, or just put your feet ...

Westslope cutthroat trout — like this colored-up, 15-inch male — are a common find in Idaho’s high-elevation fisheries. Jordan Rodriguez Huffing and puffing, my friend Clayton and I crested the saddle ...

If you’ve ever wanted to disappear into the Oregon rainforest, swallowed inside a canyon of moss-wrapped trees and banana slugs, head southeast of Newport and follow a network of roads to a cryptic ...

I’d like to say that my friend Gabe and I took a short backpacking trip in late June to celebrate the Wilderness Act’s 50th birthday, which is coming up in September, but that would be a lie. We just ...